CSR in Bulgaria

The concept of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as such with its instruments has been introduced to Bulgaria and followed firstly by the big international brands producing sportswear that started to put orders to Bulgarian factories attracted by the low labour cost and closeness to big consumer markets. The first activities were mainly social audits and social monitoring and trainings in Codes of Conducts and labour rights undertaken by the multinational companies.

Very few university training have been available and accessible so far in Bulgaria (as of 2008).

The only program on CSR in the Bulgarian universities is the one started in December 2007 in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” – master program “Management of Human Resources”.

Unlike most countries in Europe, trade unions in Bulgaria support the CSR ideas and are very useful partner in all initiatives in the field. One of them is the National Round Table for Introduction of Social Standards in Bulgaria.